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12th Aug 2022
Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 - Third Reading - Pass the bill
Kate Thwaites voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 90% attendance
Kate Thwaites
Australian Labor Party Representative for Jagajaga since May 2019
Never rebels explain rebellions 71% attendance explain attendance
Kate Thwaites is Assistant Minister for Social Security, Assistant Minister for Women, and Assistant Minister for Ageing.
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
- A referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice
- Banning pay secrecy clauses
- Banning the sale of non-therapeutic vapes
- Build to Rent (BTR)
- Building dedicated quarantine facilities (COVID-19)
- Capping gas prices
- Capping international student numbers at universities
- Compulsory income management for welfare recipients
- Considering legislation to create a federal anti-corruption commission (procedural)
- Doctor-initiated medical transfers for asylum seekers
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Increasing consumer protections
- Increasing investment in renewable energy
- Increasing political transparency
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing support for the Australian shipping industry
- Increasing transparency of big business by making information public
- Increasing workplace protections
- Making the cashless debit card program voluntary and not mandatory
- Market-led approaches to protecting biodiversity
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
- The territories being able to legalise euthanasia
- Treating the COVID vaccine rollout as a matter of urgency
- Vehicle efficiency standards
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
- Federal action on public housing
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing legal protections for LGBTI people
- Letting all MPs or Senators speak in Parliament (procedural)
- Net zero emissions by 2050
- Reducing tax concessions for high socio-economic status
- Suspending the rules to allow a vote to happen (procedural)
- The Paris Climate Agreement
- Transgender rights
Voted a mixture of for and against
Voted generally against
- A character test for Australian visas
- Decreasing availability of welfare payments
- Ending government investment in fossil fuels
- Increasing support for rural and regional Australia
- Prioritising religious freedom
- Protecting Australian sovereignty in trade agreements
- Putting welfare payments onto cashless debit cards (or indue cards) on an ongoing basis
- Speeding things along in Parliament (procedural)
Voted almost always against
Voted consistently against
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A combined Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
- Assisting the Arts sector through the coronavirus pandemic
- Banning mobiles and other devices in immigration detention
- Banning new thermal coal mines
- Community right to say no to nuclear waste disposal sites
- Considering motions on Gaza (2023-24) (procedural)
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Ending immigration detention on Nauru
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Fee-free university and TAFE education
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing access to the JobKeeper Payment
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing state and territory environmental approval powers
- Increasing support for the Australian film and TV industry
- Increasing trade unions' powers in the workplace
- Increasing workplace protections for women
- More scrutiny of intelligence services & police
- Nuclear energy
- Parliament continuing to meet during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Political intervention in research funding grants
- Privatising certain government services
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Regional processing of asylum seekers
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Self-governance of the territories
- Temporary Exclusion Orders
- The federal government calling for a ceasefire in Gaza (2023-24)
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Kate Thwaites has never voted against the majority of their party since entering Parliament in May 2019. explain rebellions
Free votes
Kate Thwaites has taken part in 2 free votes since entering Parliament in May 2019. explain “Free Votes”
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Representative could have attended.
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Bills — Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Reform) Bill 2024, Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Communications) Bill 2024; Reference to Committee
Kate Thwaites voted No
Not passed by a modest majority
No rebellions 42% attendance
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edited 4 days ago
Aged Care Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Reporting burden
Kate Thwaites voted No
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 82% attendance
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edited 4 days ago
Aged Care Bill 2024, Aged Care Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Consideration in Detail - Advisory bodies
Kate Thwaites voted Yes
Passed by a large majority
No rebellions 39% attendance
Compare Kate Thwaites with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Kate Thwaites (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
We only compare those votes where both people attended. This may reveal relationships between people that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | Anthony Albanese | Australian Labor Party Representative for Grayndler |
| 100% | Anne Aly | Australian Labor Party Representative for Cowan |
| 100% | Michelle Ananda-Rajah | Australian Labor Party Representative for Higgins |
| 100% | Jodie Belyea | Australian Labor Party Representative for Dunkley |
| 100% | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party Representative for McMahon |